Composting Workshop
April 14, 2012 from 10 am - Noon

Put your yard and garden trimmings to use as you prepare for your summer garden with Director of Horticulture Randy Johnson!Explore various composting techniques, earthworms, compost tea and integrated pest management. 

$25; $20 for TDG Members. Register in advance.

Register here - http://texasdiscoverygardens.org/events_and_classes.php

We’re closing Main Street for good old fashioned fun at Farmers Market. Festival includes games, rides, bands, food, bounce houses, face painters, balloon artists, entertainment and arts and crafts. Admission and parking are free.

Food, drink, art, crafts, gifts and Farmers Market wares available for purchase. Tickets to the 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. showing of the Uptown Theater’s “A Musical Tribute to Roy Rogers starring Roy Rogers Jr. and Dustin Rogers” available for purchase in advance online at www.uptowntheatergp.com for $30-$35 each.

More Farmers Market info: www.gptx.org/farmersmarket or call 972-237-4599.

The next Master Composter training will be held April 12-14, 2012. The training – which includes both classroom and "hands-on" instruction – will take place at city facilities and the Kirby Creek Nature Center’s Exhibition Garden. You may reserve a place by signing up online.

Spring 2012 Master Composter Class Schedule:
6-9 p.m. Thursday, April 12
6-9 p.m. Friday, April 13
8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, April 14

The $25 Grand Prairie resident registration fee and $40 non-Grand Prairie resident registration fee includes a compost thermometer, the Rodale Book of Composting, excerpts from the Green Guide to YardCare booklet, and lunch on Saturday, April 14.

Grand Prairie is one of the few cities in the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area that offers the course. Anyone interested in achieving a sustainable backyard lifestyle will benefit from composter training – whether they choose to certify or not.

Certification Requirements 

Date & Time Location
May 31st 6:00 pm – 9:00pm 
June 1st 6:00 pm – 9:00pm 
June 2nd 8:00 am – 4:00pm 

Dallas Farmer’s Market - Multi Purpose Room - 1010 S. Pearl Expwy. - Dallas, TX 75201

Purpose
To grow a community of volunteers dedicated to the reduction of organics in the municipal solid waste stream, education of organic composting among citizens of Dallas and increasing community participation in waste diversion efforts via composting.

Requirements
Master Composter candidates will attend:
Introduction to Composting 1 hr
History of Solid Waste 2 hrs
Compost Recipe 101 2 hrs
Composting Techniques: Backyard and Commercial 2 hrs
Vermi-composting 2 hrs
The Indore Method – Hands on Training 2 hrs
Compost Quality 2 hrs
How to Use Compost 2 hrs
Read “The Rodale Book of Composting” 5 hrs
Total Education 20 hrs

April 21 & 22nd - 9 am to 4 pm

Things to bring:

· Electronic items (E-waste) · Televisions · Video Games · Cell Phones · Computers · Calculators· Printer · Toys and stuffed animals
· Documents for destruction (NO binders or media)
· Glass bottles and containers
· Mixed paper and cardboard
· Textiles · Clothing · Shoes · Hats· Purses · Backpacks · Belts · Wallets · Refrigerated and self-stable cartons
· Used cooking oil
· Hardback books
· Scrap metal
· Auto and alkaline batteries
· Small appliances
· Fluorescent and incandescent light bulbs
· Tires (No limit)
· Plastics (#1 - #7)
· Clean styrofoam · Packaging foam
· Bubble and shrink wrap · Plastic bags and packaging (without food residue)

DO NOT BRING

HOUSEHOLD CHEMICALS, PAINT, BUILDING SUPPLIES, PHARMACEUTICALS, FURNITURE OR MATTRESSES

Do your plants have spots when they didn’t use to? Do you have something chewing on your plants in the middle of the night? Join Michael Bosco, owner of Soils Alive, as he teaches you about common plant diseases in our area, insects that will help keep your garden beautiful and healthy, how to attract them and how to get rid of the pests that can destroy your plants. It’s a jungle out there, come find out how to combat disease in your garden and put your new insect friends to work for you! 

4/14 from 12pm – 2pm,

$25 or $23 for Members

http://dallasarboretum.org/AdultEducation/Gardening&Design.htm

TietzeShred! 

On-site Document Shredding Event & Annual Fundraiser for Friends of Tietze Park Foundation - Watch your sensitive documents being confettied by Talon Shred's mobile shredding truck. 

Saturday, March 31^st ,

9 am to 1 pm in the parking lot of Skillman Church of Christ (Skillman at Monticello).  

http://www.meetup.com/DFW-Tarrant-County-Greenweavers/events/53196872/

Earthships are self sustained, off-grid houses made out of recycled materials that provide for all human needs of shelter, comfort, water and power. Earthships collect their own rain water, create their own solar & wind power, and maintain a consistent temperature in any climate through thermal mass. This workshop is an in depth overview of how to build an Earthship, and how each system works. There is a fee of $100 for the instructor, and includes the instruction booklet. The workshop will take place at our transitional community just South of Tyler, on April 7th and 8th. Please register for the Earthship Biotechture Training course weekend April 7th and 8th, at: http://www.biotechtur... 

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